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Love Your Food.Mindful Eating vs Dieting
Ivy Mumo, Dietetic Intern
Slide2What is Mindful Eating?
Eating with purpose and awareness
Source: thecenterformindfuleating.org, eatingmindfully.com
Slide3Mindful Eating Exercise
Slide4Goals of Mindful Eating
Awareness of physical and emotional eating cues
Recognize non-hunger triggers of eating
Choose foods for enjoyment and nourishment
Eat for optimal satisfaction and satiety
Use fuel from food to live a healthy vibrant life
Slide5Benefits of Mindful Eating
Break the cycle of habitual mindless eating
Support sustainable weight loss and weight maintenance
Decreases food cravings and emotional eating
Slide6Mindful Eating vs Dieting
Mindful Eating
Focus on how/ why
Empowerment
Internal CuesSatisfaction
Lifestyle
Celebrate Food
Quality Calories
Dieting
Focus on what/ how much
Willpower
External Cues (Environment)
Deprivation
Quick FixFight Food
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Slide7Strategies to Implement Mindful Eating
Slide8Decision points in mindful eating
Purpose: increase awareness and support decision making
Source: amihungry.com
Slide9Why do I eat?
Identify your eating triggers
Common non-hunger eating triggers
Boredom
To be socialFood is available
Listen
to your body.
More likely to choose convenient, energy dense high calorie foods and eat in excess
Slide10When do I eat?
Ask yourself, “ am I hungry?”
Eating when
you are
hungry allows you to Identify if you are eating due to non-hunger cuesIncreases satisfaction
Slide11What do I Eat ?
Choose foods for nourishment and enjoyment
There are no “good” and “bad” foods enjoy them in moderation
Be open to trying new foods
Acknowledge your reactions of the food (likes, dislikes etc)
Slide12How do I Eat?
Sit and eat a table free of clutter
Take
the time to focus on and savor your food
Slide13Use Energy provided by food to live a healthy vibrant life
Slide14Enjoy the freedom of mindfulness!
Slide15Questions?
Thank you!
Slide16ReferencesAmihungry.com
Mindful Eating Freedom from Dieting
. March 19, 2014. Cleavelandclinic.org
Mindful Eating: Shifting the focus from weight to well-being
. Am I Hungry? http://www.amihungry.com/pdf/Mindful-Eating-Weight-to-Well-being.pdf?inf_contact_key=4e971935ce7b3b84c1a687287e0adbef9185f91e3be4676b6c4ec36aa15bd3cbthecenterformindfuleating.org